texlive-bin-extra conflicts with pdfjam and latexdiff

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

--->  Activating texlive-bin-extra @18336_1+doc
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/pdf180 is being used by the active pdfjam port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate texlive-bin-extra' to force the activation.
Log for texlive-bin-extra is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_tex_texlive-bin-extra/main.log

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Indeed it does. Didn't realize we already had a port for pdfjam. Let's have texlive-bin-extra depend on that instead of installing it itself.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

In order to do this we need to change pdfjam's dependency on texlive to something more specific. What packages does it actually require? I think just texlive-latex-recommended, and possibly also texlive-fonts-recommended?

Ugh. And I don't know if it's possible to write the dependency in a way that'll let ptex satisfy it too. Currently it's path:bin/pdflatex:texlive. It's not right to just change texlive to texlive-latex-recommended, because bin/pdflatex is installed by texlive-latex (and can be installed without texlive-latex-recommended). The actual file it depends on (well, among tex packages) is pdfpages.sty, but texlive and ptex install it into different places.

Maybe this point will become moot now that ptex is included in texlive too...

[jjstickel@…]

I don't mind if pdfjam is removed as a port if it is now included in texlive-bin-extra. The only real drawback, from my point of view, is that users may not know where to find pdfjam.

[jjstickel@…]

The port "latexdiff" also conflicts:

--->  Activating texlive-bin-extra @18336_1+doc
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/latexdiff is being used by the active latexdiff port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate texlive-bin-extra' to force the activation.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

I updated pdfjam's dependencies in r74948 to texlive-basic and texlive-latex-recommended rather than all of texlive to avoid circular dependency problems when we make texlive-bin-extra depend on it. The path dependency is a bit of a hack to allow ptex to satisfy that dependency too: it's the location ptex installs that file in.

I'll remove pdfjam (and latexdiff) from texlive-bin-extra and add it as a dependency shortly; waiting for the distfiles to regenerate.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Replying to dports@…:

I'll remove pdfjam (and latexdiff) from texlive-bin-extra and add it as a dependency shortly; waiting for the distfiles to regenerate.

Done in r74955

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Ugh. I introduced a conflict when I made texlive-bin-extra depend on pdfjam and latexdiff. pdfjam and latexdiff get upgraded first, so they'll conflict with the old version of texlive-bin-extra that's still installed and contains its own pdfjam and latexdiff binaries.

I had to edit the pdfjam and latexdiff ports in r74956 and r74957 to add a pre-activate hook that prevents the conflict by deactivating an old texlive-bin-extra if it's installed. Sorry for not notifying you beforehand, but this was causing all texlive upgrades to fail.